Christmas baking

Once again, my blogging has not been as regular as I'd like. Perhaps if I actually posted more often, people would read my blog? I am going to try and update in the orderish that things happened..

Before Christmas, we did a bit of Christmas baking. You know, for Santa. (god that seems sooo long ago now) I baked some Stained Glass Cookies. They turned out quite well, despite my terrible photos. They looked pretty and according to D, tasted good.

I also baked some carrot cupcakes for Santa's reindeer

Yes, those are fake carrot lollies on top. Like I was going to peel down REAL carrots!!

Christmas was great this year, we spent the morning with D's family and the afternoon with Sconey and a bunch of friends. We played games all night and ended up eating our Christmas roast dinner at 2am! It was fantastic Christmas fun.

M

exciting lithops news & old school games..

My lithops is growing so quickly!! I was hoping that it would divide in two, but only two replacement leaves appeared. (old leaves die). Maybe next time...

While with the in-laws this weekend, we dragged out the Monopoly board. I haven't played in years and forgot how much I love playing board games. I was the banker so I got to have fun with a big wad of cash. There were the usual heated moments (especially with siblings playing!) and arguments over what was and wasn't a good property deal.

D and I don't own a set, so I am going to keep an eye out at the Garage sales etc...

M

pinata cake

This weekend we had the birthday celebrations for D's sister, Sandra. To be honest, I'll be quite glad when this wee spate of birthdays is over! That said, there was a new addition to the October birthday calendar with the arrival of this wee bundle:

Isn't she cute? She is our 10 day old niece. She was a very big baby, weighing around 10 pounds and she was born with that thick wad of hair!! Congrats to her mummy and daddy.

On with the birthday-ness..

This is the 'pinata' cake that D and I made for Sandra...

The "treasure" cake inside:

and the pinata shell (chocolate with LOTS of different sized M&Ms)



and after Sandra had smashed it (as opposed to blowing out her candles):

It turned out pretty awesome. Very colourful and fun for Sandra to smash up! So here is a belated...

Happy Birthday Sandra!!!

M